How many of you are going to work about 15 minutes each and every Friday during football season? Really, I’m alone on that one? Maybe 45 minutes of work then…
You should have already scanned those initial Wednesday injury reports by now to see how your running back’s offense line looks this week and how that opposing front seven going against your running backs is measuring up.
Next you should have peaked at the opposing CBs against your WRs and QBs. This becomes a little bit more important as the season wears on but ask the Giants and Cowboys about missing their top CBs can affect the other team’s production.
However almost every team looked surprisingly strong against the run in week 1 (minus the Jags and Saints). I don’t see this as a trend or else we will all be taking a run on WRs in next year’s draft in the first 2 rounds. No way is MIN and ARI that good against the run for the course of a season.
Look for Friday afternoon’s official NFL injury list to be updated by going to the nfl.com’s injury page around 5 or 6pm for the latest news. By the way, they say that Probable is 75% chance of playing, Questionable is 50% and Doubtful is 25% but in my experience it’s more like 95%, 70% and 30%.
What other preparation should I be doing? Well believe it or not you should be taking note of the weather or lackthereof for dome teams. I’m not talking about hot, cold, rain or snow. I’m thinking wind here. Wind has the most devastating affect on QBs, WRs and K outside of a good rush. Anything above 20mph sustained or gusts over 25mph should be used as a decision tool. As I spot them for myself I’ll be sure to share.
Things to ponder going into this weekend…Will Detroit continue to spread the wealth or will that high potential, 3rd round pick of Roy Williams get more than 4 catches and 20 yards each week? How many weeks will Herm Edwards continue to limit LJ’s carries? How long before Adrian Peterson takes over full time for Cedric Benson?
My answers…Roy will get his usual soon, maybe even this week. At about 0-3, Herm will decide that his job is more important than LJ’s long term health. When is Chicago’s bye week? Week 9? Oh it will be 2 weeks before that at PHI.
Tomorrow night, I’ll give you some surprise starters and bizarre benchings. Each week we’ll see if I’m right on Monday/Tuesday. The over/under success line is 15 points for QB, 10 points for RB, WR and Defenses, and 5 points for TE and K.
I’ll also list out my 4 team rosters and who I will start, I’ll give you my picks against the spread in every game and I’ll give you my Survivor pick of the week. For the record, in week 1, I went 2-2, .500 against the spread and Seattle survived.
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